New Gear Review: The Loar LH-280 Archtop Electric

The Loar introduces the LH-280 (pictured is the LH-280C-BK model), an archtop cutaway with dual humbuckers and a 16-inch lower bout. Based on a vintage Florentine cutaway design, the LH-280 is a classic archtop but it’s great for jazz, blues and rock styles.

The LH-280 has a maple top, maple back and sides and two Loar humbucking pickups. You get 19 frets on a bound rosewood fingerboard and a standard vintage electric 24 3⁄4-inch scale. The 1-3/4-inch bone nut tops the mahogany neck along with Grover Butterbean tuning machines. The guitar includes a two-way truss rod and a Tune-O-Matic floating bridge.

miniBio: Barry Rudolph is a recording engineer/mixer with over 30 gold and platinum RIAA awards to his credit. He has recorded and/or mixed: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall & Oates, Pat Benatar, Rod Stewart, the Corrs and Robbie Nevil. Barry has his own futuristic music mixing facility and also teaches recording engineering at Musician’s Institute, Hollywood, CA. http://www.barryrudolph.com

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